Glossary

Consolidated terminology and acronyms. For full documentation navigation see Documentation Home.

Term	Meaning
Bronze	Raw, immutable data layer (ingest as-is).
Silver	Validated, quality-assured data layer.
Gold	Business aggregates and reporting layer.
Quarantine	Invalid rows held for review and retry.
Condemned	Rows that exceeded max retry attempts.
run_id	Unique identifier for an ETL run; enables isolation and idempotency.
_LATEST.json	Control-plane file pointing to the current promoted run.
current/	Stable prefix for consumer queries.

For architecture details see Data Lake Architecture and Reference.